devenv: a developer environment

Overview and scope

At a high level, devenv is a modular IDE configuration declared with Nix. It comes in three flavors:

• minimal: just git and basic IDE configuration
• normal: common languages
• complete: includes support for all the languages

And it supports four editors:

• emacs
• emacs-nox
• vim
• vscode

Use

Setup base environment for clibs and nixGL (which needs --impure for NVidia):

• nix develop --impure github:podenv/devenv

Run the editor with the normal flavor:

• nix run github:podenv/devenv#emacs-nox
• nix run github:podenv/devenv#vim
• nix run github:podenv/devenv#vscode

Install the languages toolchains:

• nix profile install github:podenv/devenv#emacs-nox $(nix run github:podenv/devenv#toolchains)

To use the other flavors, add -minimal or -extra to the attribute name, for example:

• nix run github:podenv/devenv#vim-minimal
• nix run github:podenv/devenv#emacs-complete

Install all the runtimes with:

$ nix profile install github:podenv/devenv#emacs-complete $(nix run github:podenv/devenv#toolchains-complete)

Inspect

Get the list of installables:

$ nix flake show github:podenv/devenv

Get the dependencies list:

$ nix path-info --derivation -rsSh $installable

Try running nix build $installable if path-info fails with error: path '/nix/store/... is not valid

Get the runtime dependencies list:

$ nix path-info -rsSh $installable

Display the list as a tree:

$ nix-store -q --tree $(nix path-info $installable)

Contribute

Contribution are most welcome, for example the project needs help to:

• Support more languages.
• Add Vim configuration.
• Improve documentation.
• Define more installables (such as emacs-evil).